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Re: Debian Perl Group meeting at DebCamp - 2008-08-06



On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:41:23 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> > > heh. Life is good when you are a DD ... :)
> > You don't need to be a DD in order to do svn-upgrade's :)
> Noe, Gregor wants to fool you that just doing svn-upgrade is enough :)

You caught me :)
 
> It is not. The upstream chhanges (means: diff, not just Changeelog) 
> needs to be reviewed for license/author/copyright changes and these 
> reflected in debian/copyright. The package needs to be built.  Perhaps 
> upstream has closed some debian bug... that woud need a Closes: in the 
> changelog.  Lintian checks, Policy bump, see if all patches have 
> explainatory headers, also, were they forwarded upstream if relevant?  
> dh-make-perl -R?

Sounds like a good start for howto/upgrade.pod :)

Cheers,
gregor 
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